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Reinventing the Walrus Stroll. A poem.

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Reinventing the Walrus Stroll

Rare oceans wait in witless pages for the bold

How few dreamers dare the ocean slate

Absurd! Absurd, they teared in hate

I never saw them straight. So when I was told rare oceans wait

I embarked to the break, grabbled my mind in the water's roll

How few dreamers dare the ocean slate

Plumbed its purple depth and ate tenacity bubbles in bulk and bought my soul

Rare oceans wait

for worded writers to sink straight into the immortal abyss of bluey-gold

How few dreamers dare the ocean slate

Attack! Attack and mate, and reinvent the walrus stroll

Rare oceans wait

How few dreamers dare the ocean slate

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Jeremy Allen Florida 1998, revised 2013

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A beginner's beginning guide to specialty coffee

Specialty coffee is not a type, kind, or variety of coffee plant. To me, specialty coffee is a landscape of connected and interdependent people and processes that is focused on quality not quantity of the coffee experience. From farmers, their families, their seasonal workers, quality control processes, the wet and dry milling stations, storage, exporters, importers, commercial and home roasters, cafe owners, baristas, organizations such as SCAA, ACE, and WCR, trainers and educators, universities, sensory scientists, botanists and agronomists, sustainability initiatives, climate scientists, software coders and app developers, equipment and device manufacturers, private and public investors, supply chain and logistics experts, commodities traders, local and national governments, cultural innovators, and more.

When a drop of specialty coffee hits your tongue, you are tasting your connection to the fortunes and misfortunes of everyone in this landscape.

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A beginner's beginning guide to specialty coffee